| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This is the first modern book about the artist David Wilkie (1785-1841), the first British painter to become an international celebrity. Based on extensive original research, the book explores the ways in which Wilkie?s images, so beloved by his contemporaries, engaged with a range of cultural predicaments close to their hearts. In a series of thematic chapters, whose concerns range far beyond the details of Wilkie?s own career, Tromans shows how, through Wilkie?s thrillingly original work, British society was able to reimagine its own everyday life, its history, and its multinational (Anglo-S. |
| Contents |
Everyday stories -- Anatomy of expression -- 'The shackles of connoisseurship' -- Everyday heroes : Wilkie's version of history -- 5. Wilkie and Scotland. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Wilkie, David. |
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Painters -- Scotland -- Biography.
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Painters. |
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Scotland. |
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Painting, Scottish -- 19th century.
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Painting, Scottish. |
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19th century |
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1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tromans, Nicholas. David Wilkie. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007 9780748625208 0748625208 (DLC) 2008353996 (OCoLC)154711302 |
| ISBN |
9780748630844 (electronic book) |
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0748630848 (electronic book) |
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9780748625208 (hardback) |
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0748625208 (hardback) |
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